Daily food supply for 9 billion people in 2050

The Conference

Disruptive innovation, investments, regulation and urbanization characterize the radical change in food industry. To this end, we want to initiate a sociopolitical debate.

In collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and the Wageningen University.

Location:

Radisson Blu Hotel, BerlinKarl-Liebknecht-Straße 310178 Berlin

In collaboration with

Program

From Speed-Evolution to Food-Revolution

As a result of increasing urbanization, an aging society and the implementation of sustainability ideas in all processes, the demands on our diet are radically changing.

Simultaneously, the high research investments for new food ideas alter the supply of food radically.

This global, socio-technological transformation process has to be accompanied by a public discourse in order to guarantee the acceptance and implementation of the research results. This is the only way to feed nine billion people sustainably in the future.

Fabian Riedel

Prof. Matin Qaim

Krijn Poppe

Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther

Director of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research

Jingang Shi

CEO, EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd, China

Sponsoring

Innovations - Companies - Society

Present your novelties and ideas for the food of the future and involve interested groups in the discourse. As a sponsor, you can present studies, research and project results.Also, present best practice examples that inspire customers.

Agroforestry: An increasingly popular solution for a hot, hungry world

Agroforestry integrates trees, shrubs, and crops in a system that functions well together — it covers over 1 billion hectares of land worldwide and its best known examples include shade grown coffee and chocolate. It mitigates climate change through carbon sequestration and also benefits biodiversity, water cycling, food security, and more.Continue reading

Giovanni Ortolani

10.08.2017

Transplanting Edited Pig Organs Into Humans

In a striking advance that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers have created gene-edited piglets cleansed of viruses that might cause disease in humans.Continue reading

Gina Colata

03.12.2015

Scientists Seek Moratorium on Edits to Inheritable Human Genome

An international group of scientists meeting in Washington called on Thursday for what would, in effect, be a moratorium on making inheritable changes to the human genome. The group said it would be “irresponsible to proceed” until the risks could be better assessed and until there was “broad societal consensus about the appropriateness” of any proposed change.Continue Reading

Nicholas Wade

Build the future

Thinking of the future sustainably – ecologically, socially and economically. This is the responsibility of us all. The Global Food Summit also faces up to this responsibility. Thus, we support the "Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program" of the University of California, Berkeley.

In this program, committed mid-career professionals from all over the world who are working on sustainable projects in their countries are supported. Topics range from resource conservation to climate change, fighting poverty in relevant regions, improve global health care or initiate sustainable business models.

Over the last 16 years, 615 professionals from 110 countries have been trained in Berkeley by experts from UC Berkeley to develop joint strategies for achieving sustainability goals and implementing them in their home countries.

The special guest of this year’s Global Food Summit in Berlin will be Binta Iliyasu from North Nigeria, who is committed to the education and training of women and girls in Nigeria. She is the first of her region to study at a university and today, as a biochemist, she is a role model for many women, who are all too often denied access to education.